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WormFisherman · #1 12-08-2012, 01:05 PM

My last two trips to the gorge were terrible at best, but I still decided to give it one last chance. Began fishing about 9am with a large white spinnerbait. After a few casts I hooked into an underwater tree

. After cutting off the line I switched to a clown color husky jerk. I moved further upstream, and found a nice shallow cove. I began twitching the bait alongside a fallen down tree, and it produced a small but fighting chain pickerel. I tried a few more casts, but to no prevail and decided to call it a day.

Skunk City · #2 12-08-2012, 01:32 PM

Definitely the time of year for the husky jerk. Nice little slime dart.

GoIslanders · #3 12-08-2012, 04:02 PM

Where is Millington Gorge?

WormFisherman · #4 12-08-2012, 05:28 PM

It's on the border of basking ridge/longhill in somerset county.

FASTEDDIE29 · #5 12-08-2012, 06:02 PM

You caught soothing, thats what counts. Some nice water on that stretch.

Billfish715 · #6 12-08-2012, 08:12 PM

Once the trout stocking ends in that stretch of the Passaic, there's only a few species left for which to fish. That's a good sized pickerel for there. I've caught smaller ones and also a few small red fin pickerel near the RR trestle.

WormFisherman · #7 12-08-2012, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Billfish715

Once the trout stocking ends in that stretch of the Passaic, there's only a few species left for which to fish. That's a good sized pickerel for there. I've caught smaller ones and also a few small red fin pickerel near the RR trestle.

The further upstream you go the bigger fish there are

.